# Deputy Deployment Lead

**Company**: Leidos
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $107,900.00 - $195,050.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Leidos has a new and exciting opportunity for a Deputy Deployment Lead in our Intel Sector's Cyber & Analytics Business Area (CABA). Our talented team is at the forefront in Security Engineering, Computer Network Operations (CNO), Mission Software, Analytical Methods and Modeling, Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), and Cryptographic Key Management.

The selected individual will serve as the Deputy Deployment Lead, responsible for leading and coordinating the on-site physical and automated deployment of Platform, Network, Firewall, Backup & Recovery, DevOps, and other supporting enterprise capabilities.

**Primary Responsibilities**

- Partner with the Deployment Lead and PMO to plan, prioritize, and execute site deployments.

- Lead integrated infrastructure deployment activities at contractor and customer sites.

- Develop and maintain deployment plans, schedules, readiness criteria, checklists, and completion requirements.

- Coordinate cross-functional teams across Platform, Network, Firewall, Backup/Recovery, IaaS, DevOps, Cybersecurity, and Test.

- Serve as a primary technical liaison among on-site teams, remote engineers, program leadership, customer stakeholders, and technical partners.

- Lead site readiness efforts to verify facilities, power, cabling, connectivity, credentials, documentation, and other deployment prerequisites.

- Conduct readiness reviews and provide go/no-go recommendations for deployment execution.

- Oversee installation, configuration, integration, testing, troubleshooting, commissioning, and customer acceptance activities.

- Ensure deployed solutions align with approved architecture, engineering standards, and security requirements.

- Identify and manage deployment risks, blockers, dependencies, and schedule impacts, escalating issues as needed.

- Track deployment status, issues, and completion criteria in program management tools.

- Capture lessons learned and support transition to customer acceptance and operational readiness.

**Basic Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s Degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or a related technical field and at least 8 years of relevant experience.

- Significant experience working as a systems administrator supporting large user populations and technical staff, including developers, testers, and engineers.

- Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience supporting Linux and Microsoft-based servers and workstations.

- Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience with operating system and application hardening, including DISA standards, best practices, and high-assurance environments.

- Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience with software and hardware deployment, patch management, operating systems, and backup/restore functions.

- Proficiency with Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, and Active Directory.

- Experience coordinating and executing complex site deployments, including readiness reviews, installation, integration, commissioning, and customer acceptance activities.

- Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues in multi-domain environments during deployment and implementation activities.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical teams, program leadership, and customer representatives.

- Ability to travel as required, including local travel and occasional 1–2 week CONUS and OCONUS trips annually.

- Clearance Required: Must have TS/SCI with Polygraph.

**Benefits**

- Competitive benefits, including Paid Time Off, 11 paid Holidays, 401K with a 6% company match and immediate vesting, Flexible Schedules, Discounted Stock Purchase Plans, Technical Upskilling, Education and Training Support, Parental Paid Leave, and much more.

## Skills

### Required
- System Engineering
- Computer Science
- Information Systems
- Engineering Science
- Engineering Management
- Linux
- Microsoft-based servers and workstations
- DISA standards
- Windows Server 2016
- Windows Server 2019
- Active Directory

### Nice to have
- Cisco networking
- VMware NSX
- Palo Alto Networks
- enterprise storage
- backup/recovery
- data center infrastructure
- Infrastructure as Code
- automation tools such as Ansible
- Terraform
- PowerShell
- Python
- APIs

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